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Things Remembered: Ep. 397

Tablet Studios

Tablet Magazine

Judaism, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality

4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

This week on Unorthodox, we’re devoting the episode to stories of remembrance. We share a teaser from Covering Their Tracks, a new Tablet Studios series that tells the story of the French National Railway’s complicity with the Nazis during WWII, and a decades-long pursuit of justice. We sat down with host and documentarian Matthew Slutsky to discuss the show. Our Gentile of the Week is Kathryn Huether, a professor of musicology at Vanderbilt who studies sonic representations of the Holocaust. Plus, we share another installment of Beautifully Jewish, our series dedicated to celebrating the objects that enrich our Jewish lives. This time, Stephanie and Tanya travel to the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center to see a very special dress with a very special story behind it. This segment was created with the support of Lion Brand Yarns. Episode art courtesy of Illinois Holocaust Museum, gift in memory of Cantor Leopold Fleischer and family. Write to us at unorthodox@tabletmag.com, or leave a voicemail on our listener line: (914) 570-4869. Unorthodox is produced by Tablet Studios. Check out all of our podcasts at tabletmag.com/podcasts. SPONSORS: Visit the Contemporary Jewish Museum this winter for its new exhibit, "First Light: Rituals of Glass and Neon Art." Now on view through April 28. Book tickets today at thecjm.org. Lion Brand Yarns is a fifth generation, family-owned business, sold online, at National Craft chains, Mass Market and independent shops. Lion Brand Yarns is passionate about helping people enjoy the pleasures of working with yarn and committed to creating a more colorful, connected, comforting, and caring world.

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0:00.0

This is on Orthodox, the universe's leading Jewish podcast.

0:06.0

It's me, Stephanie Butnik, and today we're bringing you one more special episode.

0:11.0

International Holocaust Remembrance Day is this Saturday.

0:14.7

And so we're devoting this episode to stories of remembrance.

0:18.0

We have three segments for you today.

0:20.3

First, we're sharing a sneak peek of a new tablet studios podcast series called Covering

0:24.6

Their Tracks.

0:25.6

It tells the story of how during the Holocaust, the French National Railway was involved in transporting

0:30.8

Jews to concentration camps for profit.

0:33.2

The series spotlights the efforts of a small group of people to finally get justice.

0:37.7

Then we're featuring a Gentile of the week.

0:40.8

It's been a while since we had one of those on the show, but we thought no one was more deserving than Catherine Heather, a musicologist who studies Sonic representations of the Holocaust.

0:50.0

And finally, we have another installment of our series

0:52.8

beautifully Jewish. Tanya Singer and I traveled to the Illinois

0:56.2

Holocaust Museum and Education Center to see a very special dress

0:59.9

with the very special story behind it. We hope you're as moved by these stories as we are.

1:04.5

And we promise we'll be back soon

1:06.0

with a regular standard episode of on Orthodox. Hey all, it's producer Josh Cross.

1:20.2

We've been working on a new five episode mini-series called Covering Their Tracks.

1:24.0

The series tells the story of the French National Railway's complicity with the Nazis and a decades-long pursuit of justice.

1:30.0

The five-part series is helmed by documentarian Matthew Slutski, and I sat down with him to discuss it.

1:36.0

Here's our conversation and a sample of the first episode. Matthew Slutskyiksky, welcome to unorthodox.

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